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Chapter 1,353 Predicted your prediction
In fact, it didn't take long.
A conflict broke out on the west side of Wancheng, and arrows on the city wall poured down like rain. Gan Ning, who was planning to attack the city by surprise, could only shake his head and sigh when he saw this. There had not yet been a large number of casualties in the army.
Retreat quickly.
At the same time, the weaker side of the city gate guarded by Wei Yan in the north of the city suffered a fierce attack from Pan Zhang and Zhou Tai.
With Chen Dao's previous reminder, Wei Yan did not disappoint. Although his troops were inferior, he led the army and blocked Pan Zhang and Zhou Tai's strong attacks several times.
The two battles lasted for nearly two hours. Finally, as dusk approached, both sides called back their troops, declaring that the day had been fruitless.
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"Strategist! Strategist! It's amazing! It's amazing! As you said, although the enemy was feigning an attack, they quietly hid their siege equipment. If it weren't for your reminder, the West Gate and the North City Gate might really have been attacked by the opponent.
I took the opportunity to break through."
Not long after the guards left, an excited shout came from under the south city wall.
Zhuge Liang was still sitting in front of the city gate tower, making tea and reading. He didn't look like he was fighting at all.
Hearing Chen Dao's shout, Zhuge Liang showed a slight smile of triumph, but it was just a trace. The smile disappeared in an instant, and soon he met Chen Dao, who was sweating profusely but extremely excited, at the corner of the city wall.
He jogged all the way and saw Zhuge Liang sitting on the ground making tea and reading a book, and he was even more impressed.
Even his rough behavior can't help but be subtle.
Chen Dao slowed down his pace and slowly came to Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang, without raising his head, directly pointed to the seat opposite and motioned for him to sit down.
Chen Dao sheepishly patted the dust on his body, took off his bloody helmet, and sat across from him respectfully.
"Oh my God, you are the military advisor...how did you know that the other side would hide the siege equipment and feign attack?
Everything is as you expected…”
Even after sitting down, Chen Dao's tone was still excited - mainly because he thought about the consequences of this battle if he had not been reminded by Zhuge Liang... Combined with the current victory, such a contrast naturally made Chen Dao extremely excited.
And... since Zhao Yun left, this was the first time for Chen Dao to command the army as the deputy of the two most important military advisors. The feeling of being suppressed by Yi Xiaotian all the time made Chen Dao lose his confidence.
This victory is naturally of great significance.
"It's just experience, not worth mentioning."
As Zhuge Liang spoke, he poured tea for Chen Dao opposite.
He said it was experience, but he didn't specify what kind of experience it was - in fact, Zhuge Liang couldn't explain it, after all, it was all a lesson of blood and tears.
Everyone will learn something if they are tricked by Yi Xiaotian too many times, but the problem is...if Yi Xiaotian wants to trick you, if you can still survive, then you are really lucky.
And it was through such failures again and again that Zhuge Liang managed to figure out Yi Xiaotian's thoughts.
There are countless changes on the battlefield, but they can only be counted on one's fingers - after all, most wars are just two armies confronting each other, defending a city, ambushing, and besieging. Each battle has its own unique changes.
Once the war situation reaches a stalemate, these changes will become empty talk.
Zhuge Liang knew that Chen probably had no idea about these things in the past. If Zhao Yun...should have understood his intentions by now.
But Zhuge Liang has also decided that since he has said goodbye to Zhao Yun, he will naturally not think about his benefits again. After all, maybe the other party will be serious about him when they meet again next time.
So he explained to Chen Dao very carefully at that moment.
"What Yi Xiaotian is best at is breaking down your stereotyped thinking... The more normal and unremarkable a phenomenon is to you, the more likely it is that his murderous intentions are hidden."
"And like this time, he has two layers of tactics on top of the real murderous intention."
When Zhuge Liang mentioned this, Chen Dao also started to recall.
The first thing Zhuge Liang said to him was not to ask him to rush to the defense.
Instead, he denied his statement that the other side would attack the city with all its strength.
This is the first level.
"I said before that the other party was just pretending. Do you understand this?"
"Well... that's what Military Advisor Pang said. Yi Xiaotian himself didn't take any action, so the other party's action will definitely not be overwhelming, right?"
"It seems that General Chen Dao has become accustomed to this way of thinking."
"That's right."
Zhuge Liang was very satisfied with Chen's reaction at this moment, so he smiled and nodded.
"But... this is just the fact before I send you out of the city to test it."
"Just remember, whenever Yi Xiaotian considers a strategy, he will often come up with several variations. In front of him, being rigid means a dead end."
"If the same plan encounters different responses, he will react differently."
"This is also the reason why I sent you to conduct a feint attack to explore the opponent's reality - even though I already know that he will not really attack us with all his strength."
Chen Dao nodded heavily, the shock in his heart was unimaginable.
"And then came his second level of response."
"In other words, this is actually a change of tactics after he ordered us to go down and face our feint attack."
"Combining the virtual with the real, and using tricks to his advantage, this is also his signature... He guessed that I could know that he did not plan to attack with all his strength, and in turn took advantage of this - if it was me a few years ago, I would have been confident at this time.
Full of His word.”
"I ask you to pay more attention to the defenses on the west and north sides. The reason is that according to common sense, attacking from these two places is difficult and thankless. The terrain on the north side is low, and the defenses on the west side are more complete. If it is a normal siege
, generally we don’t put much effort into these two areas.”
"But this is Yi Xiaotian. He does the opposite. You should know...if it weren't for my reminder, you would definitely relax your vigilance, wouldn't you?"
Chen Dao had a deep understanding of this. At this moment, he was nodding his head like garlic, and his admiration for Zhuge Liang in his heart could not be expressed in words.
"Finally, he returned to the source of everything. No matter what the outcome of the two-layered strategy, he would not use any more force, because for the whole day, I was staring at their main camp on the south wall of the city, and Yi Xiaotian was always confused.
The lack of movement shows that he does not expect any gains from this attack."
"But if we are negligent, our losses will be huge."
When Chen Dao heard this, he got goosebumps all over his body.
Watching Zhuge Liang talk about such a tense game process calmly, Chen Dao realized that his past thinking was too naive...or maybe...this is the world of gaming for high-end players.
"So...General Chen Dao, do you have any expectations?"
"ah?
What…what expectations?”
Chen Dao was still shocked when suddenly Zhuge Liang mentioned this. He was a little confused and asked hesitantly.
But I saw Zhuge Liang taking a sip of tea and saying with a slightly solemn expression:
"It's the expectation that we will continue to lose."
Yes, in fact, Zhuge Liang had other intentions when he said these words.
He wanted Chen Dao to understand... For Yi Xiaotian, there were too many methods at his disposal. Maybe today they were facing a formidable enemy, and the attack they had worked so hard to anticipate was just casually arranged by Yi Xiaotian.
An ordinary move.
He can tirelessly try and make mistakes in this low-cost way.
But if Zhuge Liang fails to guess Yi Xiaotian's intentions even once, they will lose everything.
This...is the reason why Zhuge Liang has never been too proud from beginning to end.
